Xi Calls for Accelerated Military Build-Up at CCP's 105th Anniversary

🇨🇳 BEIJING — Xi invokes sovereignty while the US military is stretched across two theaters. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Xi accelerating military build-up rhetoric at a CCP milestone isn't random timing — it signals Beijing is watching Gulf and Ukraine simultaneously. With CENTCOM committed to Hormuz and NATO's eastern flank stressed, the window for PLA modernization signaling widens. Taiwan Strait and South China Sea are the unstated referents. Washington's trilemma — Gulf, Europe, Indo-Pacific — just got named publicly.